What product do you use for intimate wash?

[femmm]

Do you use a specific separate item for intimate washing, or just whatever shower gel or soap you use for the rest of your body?

I occasionally but the fem fresh bottle when on offer but wasn't sure if it's considered any good or if there are any better alternatives?

No! Leave your vag alone. Delicate balance etc. Apart from wiping front to back and clean pants don’t do anything, just water.

Absolutely not.

I use the same soap as for the rest of me. Nice soap though without lots of chemical fragrances.

Too much info but my pelvic floor is not what it used to be and I worry I’ll whiff if not cleaned outside with soap.

Water. I guess it'll get the odd run off of shower gel/bubble bath, but not targeted use.

I use plain soap on my bum but nothing on my vadge, and I certainly don’t go up and in with anything other than water. That’s a one way road to an itchy doot, my friend. It’s self cleaning, you don’t need any products.

Plain white, non-fragranced soap and water. Nothing else.

Femfresh is absolute marketing bullshit, save your money.

Water only.

If you must, simple soap or baby soap.

I use sanex in the shower so that. I don't wash inside, but wash my bum and the outer parts. Would be a bit stinky otherwise!

Mild soap around the outside bits and leave the inside alone.

This!!!

Absolutely no need. Your vag is self cleaning. I'll sometimes use soap on bum, but definitely no soap or anything else up front. I use the hand held spray hose in my shower to target the water direct at both areas and that works great. Stop buying rubbish like Fem Fresh or special intimate wipes etc.

You're more likely to get thrush or an itchy cootch if you do!

I hesitate to ask but what is "intimate wash?"

I give between my legs a good wash with soap and it needs it! But not inside, surely?

Stop washing your vag!! It's self cleaning and you will ruin the pH balance... That's what discharge is for. Honestly save your money and trips to the GP for BV, yeast infections and cystitis!

As others - clean the outside with a little soap and lots of water. This did stop me having recurrent UTIs, but I’d never clean inside the vagina.
Has never entered my head to do that and agree it’s marketing bullshit.

And even the cleaning outside is the very outside - the skin around the area rather than the delicate mucosal skin of the vulva. I’d worry you would damage that and cause different long term problems by it keratinising to cope with the chemicals you’re putting on it.
Save your money

I clean my bum with the usual shower gel but don't put anything on my vag. A nurse at the gp told me not to when I got BV.

Water only

No

Hmm.

plain soap like Simple.
Nothing else.

I really would think twice about commenting on this thread

I love these threads. The ambiguity because people won't use correct terminology. For the vagina, nothing. The vagina does not need rinsing out with water and you should absolutely never use any products or soaps. For the vulva, water and soap. Same as every other part of the body. Equally as for every other part of the body, it doesn't have to be every single day with soap.

Especially when it seems to be OP's first post on MN.

Look up dr Jen gunther on the subject of intimate washes...
She is a gynaecologist who is very active on social media, has books blogs and podcasts.
This is a massive bugbear of hers.
Bottom line, don't ever use these products.

Water.

I just despair of how women are encouraged nowadays to obsess about their genitals, shave this, special wash that, cosmetic surgery that, bleach this.

All this obsession is just the bastard child of misogyny and capitalism. Tell it all to F off and just get on with enjoying your c**t.